RAMALLAH, May 25, 2014 (WAFA) – Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Qaraqe’, said Sunday the Israeli prison administration distributed leaflets to all Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, reneging on a previous agreement with the prisoners reached in 2012 under the Egyptian auspices.

The agreement, made with Israel to end a previous mass hunger strike in 2012 under the Egyptian auspices, stated to limit administrative detention and the renewal of detention without establishing clear legal grounds, to stop solitary confinement, allow family visits for Gaza prisoners and to improve the living conditions of the prisoners.

“Israel’s  reneging on this agreement comes in response to the continued hunger strike by the administrative prisoners, who have been on an open-ended hunger strike for 32 consecutive days demanding an end to the policy of administrative detention against them,” said Qaraqe’.

He stressed that many of the hunger strikers were urgently transferred to hospital after their health condition seriously deteriorated due refraining from taking salt and dietary supplements and boycotting the prisons' clinics.

Meanwhile, attorney Hanan al-Khateeb, of the Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs, said the hunger strikers are currently suffering from sharp weight loss, vomiting, headache, joint pain, dizziness, severe insomnia and other symptoms.

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